Wellfleet Elementary

Wellfleet Elementary operates as a very small elementary school in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Enrollment totals 78 students across kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 80% below the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Wellfleet Elementary reports to Wellfleet.

At Wellfleet Elementary, 77% of students are White. The remaining students are 13% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 3% Black. Census figures show Barnstable County is about 86% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Wellfleet Elementary scores 39%.

The school had 11.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 6.6:1. The gap from the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 5.6 students per teacher.

For the population of Barnstable County, the median household earns about $95,241 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 48% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Wellfleet Elementary shares Barnstable County with 48 other public schools.

Truro Central is the nearest public school to Wellfleet Elementary, about 5.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, 3 other public schools are within ten miles.

By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 78, from 103 in 2020-21.

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